CURRICULUM VITAE
Art is my ministry, my meditation, my refuge. Art is a feeling.
EDUCATION
Studied with Pema Rinzin, New York Tibetan Art Studio, Brooklyn, NY, 2010–2017.
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. M.P.S, Art Therapy & Creativity Development, Graduated with Distinction, 2010.
Concordia University, Montreal, PQ. B.F.A., Studio Arts, 1992.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
*asterisk indicates solo exhibition
- 2023 Addition/Subtraction, Openings Collective, New York, NY.
- 2023 MOONSquare 2023 Exhibit, Think!Chinatown Art Space, New York, NY.
- 2023 Metal and Plastics, Willamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY.
- 2023 Divina Diosa, Womenswork Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY.
- 2021 Moonsquare 2021 Exhibit, Think!Chinatown Art Space, New York, NY.
- 2021 Souls of NYC Chinatown: Passion, Hope, Resilience, New York Arts Center, New York, NY.
- 2020 Collective Pause, Openings Collective, New York, NY.
- 2018 Gift of the Exiles, School of Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY.
- 2017 Positive, Negative, & the Space Between, Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York, NY.
- 2016 The Weight of Culture, School of Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY.
- 2014 New York Tibetan Art Studio: New Voices, The Active Space Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
- 2014 My Sister’s Doll, Figureworks Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
- 2014 Art and Social Practice, Queens Museum of Art, Flushing, NY.
- 2013 Faces of Figureworks, Figureworks Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
- 2010 Vital Signs, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY.
- 2009 The Future Figure, Figureworks Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
- 2005 Night of 1,000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York, NY.
- 2004 Legal Action Comics Vol. 2, CBGB’s Gallery, New York, NY.
- 2004 *The Sensual and the Sublime, Figureworks Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
- 2004 Talking Hands, AIR Gallery, New York, NY.
- 2003 Characterism, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY.
RESIDENCY AWARDS
2019 Studio Residency, Openings Collective, Lake George, NY.
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
2017 Positive, Negative, & the Space Between, Leslie-Lohman Museum & Housing Works, New York, NY.
2013–2016 Annual National Creative Arts Therapies Week Client Exhibition, Flushing Hospital, Flushing, NY.
ILLUSTRATOR EXPERIENCE
1992–2008 Publicis USA, DC/Milestone Comics, Valiant Comics, Broadway Comics
TEACHING ARTIST EXPERIENCE
2008 Comix! Workshop for Kids & Teens, Museum of the Chinese in America, New York, NY.
PUBLIC SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
- 2018 The Art of Mindful Doodling, Housing Works, Brooklyn, NY.
- 2015 Therapeutic Use of the Creative Process, Flushing Hospital, Flushing, NY.
- 2015 Art as Mindful Containment, New York Coalition for Asian American Mental Health, NYU, New York, NY.
- 2014 Art Therapy & Psychosis, Flushing Hospital, Flushing, NY.
- 2014 Art Therapy Interventions for Addiction Disorders, Flushing Hospital, Flushing, NY.
